NUMA POMPILIUS Legendary, 8th-7th Century B.C...

OTHO A.D...

PHILOPOEMEN 253?-183 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden CLEANDER was a man of high birth and great power in the city of Mantinea, but by the chances of the time happened to be driven from thence...

PHOCION 402?-317 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden DEMADES, the orator, when in the height of the power which he obtained at Athens, by advising the state in the interest of Antipater and the Macedonians, being necessitated to write and speak many things below the dignity, and contrary to the character, of the city, was wont to excuse himself by saying he steered only the shipwrecks of the commonwealth...

POMPEY 106-48 B.C...

POPLICOLA 500 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden SUCH was Solon...

PYRRHUS 365?-272 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden OF the Thesprotians and Molossians after the great inundation, the first king, according to some historians, was Phaethon, one of those who came into Epirus with Pelasgus...

ROMULUS Legendary, 8th Century B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden From whom, and for what reason, the city of Rome, a name so great in glory, and famous in the mouths of all men, was so first called, authors do not agree...

SERTORIUS 130?-72 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur...

SOLON 638-539 B.C...